Hard-Drive of the Long Now

Webb:

“We should be able to sink storage piles in the ground. When you move house, you should go down into the basement and stick a giant spike into the earth, hook it up to your network, and the planet acts as a giant hard drive.”

Also found this morning, more seventies space-art from Don Dixon, including, coincidentally “Data Mountain – allegory on civilization’s efforts to store data, from clay tablets to futuristic crystals”

» Don Dixon Portfolio Images 051-100 (1968-1979) / 085- Data Mountain

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